I was editing a poster and didn’t know whether or not to include a bibliography. I had already added \cite commands and wanted to get an idea of what it looks like without bibliography. So I commented out \printbiliography to get rid of the bibliography, but the numbers were still in the text. Removing all … [Read more…]
In large documents, you may end up with a pretty long list of figures or tables. In this post, I will show how to nicely structure these lists by adding subtitles. The whole thing turned out to be more tricky than I first thought, but more on that later. The my examples, I will show … [Read more…]
I’m sure most of you have used \date{…} to print a date in a title (\maketitle) or letter. Probably you also know the more dynamic command \today to produce today’s date. Setting the date dynamically is not recommended (or even prohibited by some compilers) for usage in letters (i.e. \date{\today} or simply \date), since it … [Read more…]
Creating headers and footers in Latex can be done by using the package “fancyhdr”. This is a short introduction, showing the most important features of the package. If you know “fancyhdr” and are looking for something particular, refer to the fancyhdr-documentation. First of all, you need to tell Latex to use the package: and change … [Read more…]
The following is a summary of counter usage and manipulations available in LaTex. The following commands have a counter associated with it: part chapter section subsection subsubsection paragraph subparagraph page equation figure table footnote mpfootnote enumi enumii enumiii enumiv You have several possibilities to manipulate counters in LaTex: \addtocounter {counter} {value} increments the specified counter … [Read more…]